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The 19th century

Whose names filled the books of the 19th century - anyone at all, however long dead - counted as mentions per million words printed, so a period that simply published more does not inflate anyone.

Talked about then

Whose names appeared most in Russian books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.

  1. 1Patriarch Nikon of Moscow1605-1681 · 17th century · Religious Figures6.7
  2. 2Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow1482-1563 · 16th century · Writers3.1
  3. 3Nikolai Rezanov1764-1807 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures1.3
  4. 4Boris Godunov1552-1605 · 16th century · Politicians0.99
  5. 5Patriarch Joachim1621-1690 · 17th century0.86
  6. 6Vasili IV of Russia1552-1612 · 16th century · Historical Figures0.86
  7. 7Nikolay Karamzin1766-1826 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.85
  8. 8Anna of Russia1693-1740 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.82
  9. 9Ivan I of Tver1357-1425 · 14th century · Historical Figures0.66
  10. 10Avraamy Palitsyn1550-1626 · 16th century · Writers0.64
  11. 11Ivan I Aleksandrovich, Prince of Smolenskdied 1359 · 14th century0.62
  12. 12Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia1779-1831 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.62
  13. 13Elizabeth of Russia1709-1761 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.58
  14. 14Alexandra Velyaminova1301-1364 · 14th century0.57
  15. 15Peter the Great1672-1725 · 18th century · Russia · Politicians0.53
  16. 16Maximus the Greek1475-1556 · 16th century · Writers0.53
  17. 17Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia1783-1801 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.43
  18. 18Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia1864-1931 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.42
  19. 19Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia1832-1909 · 19th century · Russia · Politicians0.42
  20. 20Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia1827-1892 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.39
  21. 21Grigory Orlov1734-1783 · 18th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.38
  22. 22Alexander I of Russia1777-1825 · 19th century · Russia · Historical Figures0.36
  23. 23Leo Tolstoy1828-1910 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.35
  24. 24Alexander Bestuzhev1797-1837 · 19th century · Russia · Writers0.34
  25. 25Ivan the Terrible1530-1584 · 16th century · Politicians0.33
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Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Karl Marx1818-1883 · Germany · Academics17 decades
  2. 2Friedrich Nietzsche1844-1900 · Germany · Academics15 decades
  3. 3Arthur Schopenhauer1788-1860 · Academics20 decades
  4. 4Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1770-1831 · Germany · Academics21 decades
  5. 5Ada Lovelace1815-1852 · Academics3 decades
  6. 6Søren Kierkegaard1813-1855 · Denmark · Academics3 decades
  7. 7Carl Friedrich Gauss1777-1855 · Germany · Academics11 decades
  8. 8Swami Vivekananda1863-1902 · India · Academics13 decades
  9. 9Friedrich Engels1820-1895 · United Kingdom · Academics17 decades
  10. 10Ralph Waldo Emerson1803-1882 · United States · Academics19 decades
  11. 11Max Weber1864-1920 · Germany · Academics15 decades
  12. 12John Stuart Mill1806-1873 · United Kingdom · Academics18 decades
  13. 13Charles Babbage1791-1871 · United Kingdom · Academics20 decades
  14. 14Thérèse of Lisieux1873-1897 · France · Academics10 decades
  15. 15Ramakrishna1836-1886 · India · Academics14 decades
  16. 16Émile Durkheim1858-1917 · France · Academics11 decades
  17. 17William James1842-1910 · United States · Academicsnot measured-
  18. 18David Hilbert1862-1943 · Germany · Academics14 decades
  19. 19John Dewey1859-1952 · United States · Academics14 decades
  20. 20Auguste Comte1798-1857 · France · Academics22 decades
  21. 21Henri Bergson1859-1941 · France · Academics12 decades
  22. 22Henri Poincaré1854-1912 · France · Academics13 decades
  23. 23Évariste Galois1811-1832 · France · Academics6 decades
  24. 24Georg Cantor1845-1918 · Germany · Academics14 decades
  25. 25Max Stirner1806-1856 · Academics18 decades
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How to read these rankings

  • Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
  • Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
  • Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.